🗂️Question types

The 13 question types in Dapta Forms, grouped as Contact, Choice, Text and Content: how to add a question from the gallery, search it, and switch a question's type later.

Every step in a form is a question (or a content step) picked from the Add a question gallery. The gallery groups the 13 tiles into four families so you can find the right one quickly. Each family has its own page with every setting explained.

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Open the gallery

Click Add question in the toolbar (or the dashed + Add question card at the bottom of the question list). The Add a question dialog opens with a Search question types box and the four groups.

Type in Search question types to filter the tiles. Picking a type drops the question in and focuses the canvas to edit it.

Clicking a tile adds the question at the end of the form, selects it and puts the cursor in the canvas so you can type the question text immediately. On a brand-new form, Start from scratch opens this same gallery.

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The 13 types

Group	Type	Gallery hint	What it collects	Page
Contact	Name	Full name field	First and last name on one screen (two fields, two keys)	Contact fields
Contact	Email	Validated email	An email address, optionally restricted to work domains	Contact fields
Contact	Phone	Number with country	A phone number with a country code picker, stored in international format	Contact fields
Choice	Single choice	Pick one	One option from a list or a grid of cards; advances on tap	Choice fields
Choice	Multiple choice	Pick several	Any number of options; respondents confirm with the button	Choice fields
Choice	Dropdown	Compact list	One option from a searchable, compact list	Choice fields
Text	Short text	One line	A single line of free text	Text & scale fields
Text	Long text	Paragraph	A multi-line paragraph	Text & scale fields
Text	Website	Validated URL	A web address, normalized to https://	Text & scale fields
Text	Slider	Rating scale	A number on a scale you define (min, max, step)	Text & scale fields
Content	Message	Text, no input	A screen with text only and a button; nothing is collected	Content steps
Content	Reveal screen	A short processing pause	A timed "reviewing your answers" interstitial	Content steps
Content	Scheduler	Book a meeting on your calendar	A Calendly booking; the booking counts as the answer	Content steps

💡 Tip: Choice, Dropdown and Slider questions can carry points and feed Scoring. Contact and Text fields never affect the score; Message and Reveal screen collect nothing at all.

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Switch a question's type

You do not have to delete a question to change its kind. Select it, and in the Question settings pane on the right use the Question type select at the top. The question text, description and field key are kept; settings that do not apply to the new type disappear and the new type's settings appear.

Single choice and Multiple choice are two modes of the same question, so switching between them keeps your options, values, points and icons. Switching a choice question into a text or contact type drops the option list.

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Settings every question shares

Whatever the type, the Question settings pane offers the same core controls:

Setting	Where	What it does
Question text	Canvas, Type your question…	The prompt respondents read. Type @ or [ to insert an earlier answer (Recall answers with @).
Description	Canvas, Add a description (optional)	Helper text under the title, up to 1000 characters.
Button text	Canvas, the button under the inputs	Set automatically: Next, Submit on the last step, Continue on a Message. There is no setting to rename it, and a Dropdown or Scheduler has no button at all.
Required	Settings	On by default. Hidden for Message and Reveal screen because they collect nothing.
Placeholder	Settings	Ghost text shown inside the input while it is empty. Only for Short text, Long text, Email, Website and Dropdown.
Default answer	Advanced settings	Used when the link carries no value; anything in the URL wins over this.
Field key	Advanced settings	The name the answer is stored under; also the URL parameter that prefills it and the [key] reference that recalls it in later copy.

See Question settings for the full list, including Hidden question and Ends the form.

What's next

• Contact fields: Name, Email, Phone

• Choice fields: Single, Multiple, Dropdown

• Text & scale fields: Short text, Long text, Website, Slider

• Content steps: Message, Reveal screen, Scheduler